Hugh Mackay Quotes on People (6 Quotes)

Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV.

Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change - who stand the best chance of penetrating life's mysteries.

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives.

I wish we didn't have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people who have already been traumatised in the countries from which they've fled.